Mr Unlucky adds shark attack in Florida to list of natural disasters

Erik Norrie watched the shark swim off with part of his calfWill Vragovic/AP

The shark attacked as Erik Norrie was swimming in five feet of water, bearing a spear with which he had just lanced a grouper.

He felt teeth crunching into his left leg. “As I looked back, he was just finishing his bite and ripping and swimming off, and you could see a piece of my leg in his mouth.”

Some of us would have been traumatised by this experience. For Mr Norrie, however, the shark bite was only his latest brawl with the natural world.

He told a television station in Tampa, Florida, that before suffering the indignity of seeing a fish swimming away with a portion of his calf, he had been struck by lightning. He had been bitten on his other leg by…